Although the domestic leagues at all levels have not yet begun this season, there have been many explosive news in domestic football recently, the most interesting of which is undoubtedly the news that Qingdao announced its withdrawal from Chinese football.
With the dissolution of the Qingdao team, the players in the team were also unemployed, most of the players had to start looking for a new home for themselves again, and some older players directly chose to retire, and the veteran of the team, Liu Jian, a former international who played for Evergrande and Guoan, the two major Chinese Super League giants, was one of them.
Recently, a Beijing media reported that Liu Jian, a 37-year-old veteran who used to play for Beijing Renhe and returned to Qingdao last season, decided to officially retire, thus ending his 20-year player career.
Liu Jian, a native of Zibo, Shandong, was selected by both Shandong and Qingdao teams when he played football, but in the end he chose to join the Qingdao Yizhong team.
In 2002, at the age of 17, Liu Jian was transferred to the first team of Zhongneng by Qingdao Zhongneng's then-South Korean coach Lee Jang-so. As a defender player, Liu Jian has a maturity and stability that is not commensurate with his age.
Therefore, soon after entering the first team, he was reused by Lee Jang-so, gradually became the core of the team's defense, and became the captain of the Qingdao team three years later.
Because of his outstanding performance in the league, Liu Jian was also selected for the national team in 2007, and in the debut of the national team, Liu Jian scored a goal to help the national enough to win 7-0 against Myanmar.
According to statistics, Liu Jian has represented the national team in 36 official international competitions in the past many years, scoring a total of 4 goals, which is already quite high for a defender.
After Guangzhou Evergrande entered the Chinese Super League, it began to poach in the Chinese Super League teams, and Liu Jian was one of them. At the end of the 2013 season, Liu Jian transferred to Evergrande on a free basis. However, due to the "Yin and Yang Contract" incident at that time, Liu Jian was not able to officially join Evergrande, and after nearly half a year of tug-of-war negotiations and arbitration by the Football Association, Liu Jian finally officially transferred to Evergrande as he wished.
When Liu Jian joined Evergrande, the club was in its most prosperous period with the blessing of Jinyuan football. Therefore, in just 4 years of playing for Evergrande, Liu Jian won a total of 4 Chinese Super League championships and 1 AFC Champions League championship with Evergrande. It can be said that Liu Jian at that time was definitely a successful person.
However, as he grew older, Liu Jian gradually lost his position in the team. In the 2017 season, he was used as a chip in exchange for Deng Hanwen and was traded by Evergrande to Beijing Renhe.
Last season, after Beijing Renhe and the club announced their dissolution, Liu Jian returned to Qingdao and joined the Qingdao team. Unexpectedly, after only one season of playing for the team, Qingdao also announced its dissolution this year. I have to say that Liu Jian's luck in the past 2 years has indeed been somewhat bad.
In the case of the dissolution of the Qingdao team and the low point of Chinese football, the 37-year-old Liu Jian is now left with a choice to retire. Here, we would also like to wish Liu Jian that he can continue to stay in football after retiring, transform into a football coach, and contribute his share to the future take-off of Chinese football.